Hi.. I see that the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is already on your Todo list by "popular demand". I would just like to emphasize the "popular demand" : ) I'm sure everybody would love to see a MAM video of it.
By the way, I also see that "jazz" is in your todon't list... does it include Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? I know it is pretty complex (and that it's not from before 1923, as it says it should be on the todont page), but it would make a beautiful MAM video.
@pedrofonini The second Hungarian Rhapsody is on my DVD; I don't plan to put it on YouTube until the last of the DVDs are sold. I started with 1000 DVDs; I have 82 left now.
Gershwin's music is still under copyright; until/unless the copyright expires or I get permission from the copyright owner to use it, I'm steering clear of it.
@pedrofonini Hmmm... I'm sorry, I just found that the Hungarian Rhapsody is already on the dvd.
The todo list includes the Blue Danube [ which is not on the dvd ;) ], but it has just one name on the "suggested by" column. Does another guy asking for it make it "popular demand"? : )
Thanks for all the videos you've already done, anyway. It's always nicer to hear a new song when I find a MAM video of it!
@pedrofonini At this point, my to-do list is too overwhelming for me to consider any new requests. Millions of people are now viewing my videos on YouTube, and each one of them has her/his own wish list, which means that no matter what music I choose to make a video of, lots of people are going to be happy, and lots of people are going to be sad. So, I'm just doing videos that I think are worth doing and are interesting for me.
Probably one of the most creative works of genius I've heard. I haven't appreciated a piece of music this much before because I sorta feel what a load of other guys do when creating a piece but this is just an absolute shooting star of a piece.
did anyone else notice after watching it that when it ended the screen is moving and the white part between the title and the end of the page gets bigger, and the logo gets smaller?
i personally think that you cannot compare liszt to chopin and vice versa ... while chopin's pieces are contemporary(romantic), liszt pieces were, at his time, quite avant-garde ... this etude as well as other works such as Chasse-neige, harmonies du soir or his piano sonata gave people a glimpse of impressionistic and new music ...
I think the sustaining of the bars makes the song look harder though. (Don't get me wrong, the song is VERY VERY difficult, but it looks harder than it sounds)
@supersmashermeta Hmmm, now that i think about it, by the look of it, and some of the quiet notes that are fast and nearly undetectable, it is Hearder than this makes it look.
The human brain is truly amazing. Think about this... if somebody were to ask you to recreate this pattern, you probably couldn't. However, you could using a piano. Well some of us hehe.
I love the ending of this piece from 3.10 onwards. Everyone knows it's hard, if you're a pianist putting different fingers in the same place is difficult.
I love these crazy pieces by Liszt. It's like he was writing melodies on new theories of how melodies can work. Like science experiments.
Certainly not fit for the masses as it is not easy to adjust yourself after this type of tonality, no other music is written like this today as far as I know.
in short... there are many various factors by which one can judge his OWN the best musician or whatever (writer singer...) What i was talking about was how this rendered music that we can see here makes me feel about this piece.... it makes it complicated i have no idea at all if the piece actually is hard to play.. coz I simply never tried....
tell you the truth you just made it look over complicated I guess because of those long lines where a sound died long time ago. he doesn t hold the pedal down so it doesn t stay on iven if he did hold it down he wouldn t have to press the key so it looks more complicated than it is... i guess
you are a fool. if he held down the pedal, the long runs would all run into eachother.... in addition, people overuse the pedal all the time in liszt and betvn... i admire the pianists careful look at how the piece was written! well done. and for the record, this piece is much more complex than it looks, believe it or not.
well to reply to myself after reading these posts. complete lol moment at the FB comments ^^. to be honest, i think liszt is a little easier to grasp for the common listner. i would compare it to virginia woolf. very few people read her books even though she is one of the most famous writters in history, yet, dan brown writes something very easy to read and is more widely read. So who is more succesful? a better writter? well that is up to the reader and has many different view points.
Along with La Campanellla, this is the cutest of Lizst's very hard pieces. Both pieces have the deceptice but very hard double notes chromatic scales.
this piece feux follets is one of the most beautiful stuff i've ever heard in my life i've always loved feux follets... also is an extremely difficult piece to play
amazing! i am working on this song right now it is by far the hardest song i have played (if not one of the most technically difficult piano piece that exists!)
This is just an amazing piece of music you get to see why Liszt was deemed one of the greatest pianist in his time and one of the greatest pianist ever. His pieces are extremely teqnically advanced.
Hi smalin, I like most of the video's you upload. I've also downloaded the MAM, and now i'm looking for this song but I can't find the MIDI file you used, so please could you tell me where to find it?
Sorry for the late response, I downloaded this version too but it's not sustained like this video. Please can you explain me how to do that?, it sounds a lot better.
Oh, sorry about that. It's probably that the MAMPlayer doesn't respond to the pedal controller. If you email me, I'll see if I can find a version of the MIDI file that has the pedal controller translated into note lengths (which is what I did for this video).
Depends what you mean by "exceed." There are pieces that are harder (at least, in certain ways) than what Liszt wrote. That doesn't mean that they're better, of course.
only 10 times? Seriously, Clair de Lune is just slow chordal passages and arpeggios. pianistically quite easy. musically it's more of a challenge, but those things don't show up on the midis.
Feux Follets on the other hand, is a piano nightmare. double note passages everywhere. One of the most difficult pieces of the transcendental etudes. This is one of the most difficult pieces written for piano. 10 times? more like 50 times.
Unfortunately it's not suppose to be. Fuex Follets literally means Crazy (or merry) Fires and is the french way of saying swamp fires. It's suppose to be eerie. The left hand should actually have the melody in this peice. Even Cziffra didn't understand this piece so it's understandable that smalin didn't get it right. The true version of this song is hard to find even on the internet. In my favorites there is a low quality "correct" version.
"Fuochi fatui" is my favorite piece, and probably also the most difficult Trascendental study... It' should be a little faster, but I prefer played this way.
Yup, in the process Liszt went on to take the edge with respect to technical prowess, but it was Chopin who didn't allow pure virtuosity to damper the quality of his compositions, hence his recognition as a Classic Composer. This piece from Liszt sounds like a cartoon soundtrack to be quite frank.
To be quite frank, that's just the kind of pompousness that draws most people away from classical music. You're point is basically that it sounds kinda fun and jaunty, and that detracts from it's value... that seems like a leap of logic if you ask me. I mean really, reconstruct that logic. hahaha.... I like this piece, I felt it needed to be defended.
Liszt's compostions are harder, but remember he lived twice as Chopin. Anyway, Franz and Chopin are geniuses, the former a virtuoso genius and the latter a melody genius. Who will history remember the most in 200 years? Melodies conquer hearts. Just in FB Chopin has 102,000 fans, whereas Liszt has 20,000 or so. Now this doesn't mean anything in particular, but it does say how Chopin's music pierces through the soul. If he had been told he'll have 105,000 followers in FB he'd have said "wth?"
Oh just because Chopin is more famous it doesn't mean that we won't remember Lizst, all the great composers had their special forte, and everyone of them composed very different pieces of music so therefore we can't forget any of them. And you can't just say that Chopin is better because he has 102,000 fans on FB that's just because most of his fans aren't on FB. Then Britney S is better that fore example Guns n' Roses and I think Guns n' Roses will be rembered more than Britney.
"Just in FB Chopin has 102,000 fans, whereas Liszt has 20,000....but it does say how Chopin's music pierces through the soul."
.....I can't believe you just said that. As if a composer's merit was ever based on his facebook fans..
All it means is that Chopin is more well known than Mr. Liszt. It's like saying Mozart is the best composer to ever have lived because he's the most famous.
While Mozart's being the best composer may be true in my case, it may not be the same for everyone else.
Haven't you heard? It's been decided that everything is going to be based on Facebook fan count. Starting in 2012, the U.S. will elect its president that way.
Overall Chopin has more famous pieces but the world must understand this is more impressive than anything Chopin has done. Perhaps only a Pianist knows this..
I'm a pianist ... and I don't think this is more impressive than anything Chopin did (or more impressive than anything Liszt did, either, for that matter) ...
@Jim341046 I'm a pianist, too, and have played lots of Chopin and lots of Liszt. This piece is a landmark in the piano literature, but isn't "more impressive" than works of Chopin that are also astounding. On the whole, pianists generally regard Chopin as the greater of the two composers and the most consistently "great." Liszt wrote some true masterpieces (like the Sonata), but he wrote many that don't hold a candle to his contemporaries. Pianists have room for both.
Yes, I think it was a little hasty of me to say that. Chopin was an amazing innovator and I love playing his music especially the Nocturnes and Etude in E which I'm currently learning although I'm pretty sure I won't get through it - I'm not familiar with 'octave jumping' yet.
Chopin is a marvel to learn - you can't believe how sophisticated some of the chords are for the 1830s - more like 1950s.
The reason this piece is so staggering to me is that are at times 3 independent melodies....
Define "impressive". This is probably more technically challenging than anything Chopin ever wrote, but it's not better. It's a great piece, but it's just a short little etude. You really can't compare it with Chopin's masterpieces like his sonatas, ballades, concertos, etc. and say this is more impressive.
@Jim341046....I dont know if u played any of Chopin's etudes but Chopin wrote some very impressive repertoire for piano. This piece was written for the sole purpose of challenging pianists and to show off his technical abilities. Feux Follets is not that beautiful in its melody while all chopin etudes are both challenging and extremely beautiful.
But we're both being biased...comparing liszt to chopin is comparing apples to oranges
@danman745 I can play the first half of Chopin's etude in Eb but then it gets too hard for me - like the double octaves etc. It is beautiful. But I love the sound of this piece but partly because I know how hard it must be doing the right hand. It is out of my league.
@smalin They seem so sophisticated...at least, more than most Americans I've seen. I've lived in Kentucky for all my life, and so far, I'm the only person with common decency. It's rather depressing, when you think about it.
@wiseman2131 I can see where you're coming from man, but there are decent people out there. Don't justify the means with the ends. There are bad people out there, there are people that have no self-respect towards themselves or those around them; but they are the people who you see yourself as not, and you'll never be them. Just be glad that you have that cognitive performance and realize that there people just like them in Britain or anywhere else in this world.
Chopin has more fans. It really means something although you dont want to hear it.
He is more famous, what does it mean? Why he is more famous than Liszt? There is a reason. The reason is that his music can capture much wider audience. That´s it.
have you ever realized how Guitar Heroish this is?
Where's the Classical Pianist Hero??
Wittgensteinism 3 weeks ago
Hi.. I see that the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is already on your Todo list by "popular demand". I would just like to emphasize the "popular demand" : ) I'm sure everybody would love to see a MAM video of it.
By the way, I also see that "jazz" is in your todon't list... does it include Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? I know it is pretty complex (and that it's not from before 1923, as it says it should be on the todont page), but it would make a beautiful MAM video.
pedrofonini 3 weeks ago
@pedrofonini The second Hungarian Rhapsody is on my DVD; I don't plan to put it on YouTube until the last of the DVDs are sold. I started with 1000 DVDs; I have 82 left now.
Gershwin's music is still under copyright; until/unless the copyright expires or I get permission from the copyright owner to use it, I'm steering clear of it.
smalin 3 weeks ago
@pedrofonini Hmmm... I'm sorry, I just found that the Hungarian Rhapsody is already on the dvd.
The todo list includes the Blue Danube [ which is not on the dvd ;) ], but it has just one name on the "suggested by" column. Does another guy asking for it make it "popular demand"? : )
Thanks for all the videos you've already done, anyway. It's always nicer to hear a new song when I find a MAM video of it!
pedrofonini 3 weeks ago
@pedrofonini At this point, my to-do list is too overwhelming for me to consider any new requests. Millions of people are now viewing my videos on YouTube, and each one of them has her/his own wish list, which means that no matter what music I choose to make a video of, lots of people are going to be happy, and lots of people are going to be sad. So, I'm just doing videos that I think are worth doing and are interesting for me.
smalin 3 weeks ago
This looks ridiculously hard to play
pacifiedfools 5 months ago
@pacifiedfools Composed by Liszt, he played with all his 3 hands and 2 feet.
plijuh123 2 months ago
Sir, have you any plans of uploading other Liszt pieces?
gsarci2011 5 months ago
@gsarci2011 I don't have any plans, but somebody I'm working with plays a fair amount of Liszt, and he might do one.
smalin 5 months ago
Incredible.
ipwnallnubscuzirock 6 months ago
wow....
rainbow.................
gsarci2011 6 months ago
Ugh - MIDI kills this song.
djvbb12 6 months ago
you missed one note over there...
deibid2003 7 months ago
Probably one of the most creative works of genius I've heard. I haven't appreciated a piece of music this much before because I sorta feel what a load of other guys do when creating a piece but this is just an absolute shooting star of a piece.
Dolphidood 8 months ago
my eyes from seeing all the notes 2gether
mymoi21 10 months ago
I like
crio15crio15 10 months ago
weird very last sound?
haddtyl 11 months ago
I have to say I really like your version better than any I've heard to date.You must really like this piece. Excellent work.
OrchestralJourney 11 months ago
Thumbs up for the hands at 2:09
JACKAStrespuntocero 11 months ago
This sounds very complicated.
j4unumber1 11 months ago
i can play the part from 2:04 to 2:06
muffinsarelife1 1 year ago 2
Amazing play!
DJDDT 1 year ago
Do more Liszt! He's my favorite!
TragicAnachronism 1 year ago
now i remember why the piano captivates me so much.
xWatChYouRHeaDx 1 year ago
'Liszt' means 'flour' in Hungarian.
TheChopinesque 1 year ago
did anyone else notice after watching it that when it ended the screen is moving and the white part between the title and the end of the page gets bigger, and the logo gets smaller?
Rodentlicious 1 year ago
Interesting how seeing music in a graphic way makes patterns and shapes emerge.
smith507 1 year ago
yeah, feel same
SadLeRShooTeR 1 year ago
i personally think that you cannot compare liszt to chopin and vice versa ... while chopin's pieces are contemporary(romantic), liszt pieces were, at his time, quite avant-garde ... this etude as well as other works such as Chasse-neige, harmonies du soir or his piano sonata gave people a glimpse of impressionistic and new music ...
lovewatermelon1 1 year ago
verry nice
VonHollan 1 year ago
I think the sustaining of the bars makes the song look harder though. (Don't get me wrong, the song is VERY VERY difficult, but it looks harder than it sounds)
supersmashermeta 1 year ago
@supersmashermeta Hmmm, now that i think about it, by the look of it, and some of the quiet notes that are fast and nearly undetectable, it is Hearder than this makes it look.
supersmashermeta 1 year ago
hey you YES YOU @smalin Meaby you can play TOTENTANZ danse macabre ;)
masterofpiano1 1 year ago
COMING THIS WINTER: Piano Hero!
WailFin 1 year ago
The human brain is truly amazing. Think about this... if somebody were to ask you to recreate this pattern, you probably couldn't. However, you could using a piano. Well some of us hehe.
IIIKrazyKiDDIII 1 year ago
It's amazing that people like Chopin more even though they know Lizst! Anyways, great performance!
sunnypetitprince11 1 year ago
wow youre awsome how many years you have? and how many years you have been playing piano?
thedaychr 1 year ago
@thedaychr See the FAQ.
smalin 1 year ago
@thedaychr lol, you havnt understood anything xD
Unleech89 1 year ago
oh man, the difficulty of playing this...
cassandra5322 1 year ago
Liszt was a rock-star of his time. He was actually frowned upon for his informal performances with people screaming and throwing flowers.
XxTTechxX 1 year ago
3:20 FTW!!!!!
muffinsarelife1 1 year ago
I love the ending of this piece from 3.10 onwards. Everyone knows it's hard, if you're a pianist putting different fingers in the same place is difficult.
Jim341046 1 year ago
I love these crazy pieces by Liszt. It's like he was writing melodies on new theories of how melodies can work. Like science experiments.
Certainly not fit for the masses as it is not easy to adjust yourself after this type of tonality, no other music is written like this today as far as I know.
InSaneTK 1 year ago
<33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
solrock220 1 year ago
Legdendart Etude <3 Will O The Wisp.. How Artistic Liszt Is.
You Can Hear The Mystery, and The Creepy Pyromaniac Quality... <3
solrock220 1 year ago
Poor professional pianists, having to play that.
It is even worst than Paganini's tortures.
Esosphere 1 year ago
This music is ugly.
J0EH3AD 1 year ago
@J0EH3AD I don't like what you said yet its your opinion , But listen to it closely....you had to of had guts to write something like this.
whythewar1 1 year ago
I can't believe the coordination needed for this.
Jim341046 1 year ago 2
in short... there are many various factors by which one can judge his OWN the best musician or whatever (writer singer...) What i was talking about was how this rendered music that we can see here makes me feel about this piece.... it makes it complicated i have no idea at all if the piece actually is hard to play.. coz I simply never tried....
kyuzo1313 1 year ago
This is MUCH harder than it sounds. It's possibly Liszt's hardest short piece and one of the most difficult pieces in standard reportoire.
llamasownyou 1 year ago
tell you the truth you just made it look over complicated I guess because of those long lines where a sound died long time ago. he doesn t hold the pedal down so it doesn t stay on iven if he did hold it down he wouldn t have to press the key so it looks more complicated than it is... i guess
kyuzo1313 2 years ago
you are a fool. if he held down the pedal, the long runs would all run into eachother.... in addition, people overuse the pedal all the time in liszt and betvn... i admire the pianists careful look at how the piece was written! well done. and for the record, this piece is much more complex than it looks, believe it or not.
MyBla123 1 year ago
well to reply to myself after reading these posts. complete lol moment at the FB comments ^^. to be honest, i think liszt is a little easier to grasp for the common listner. i would compare it to virginia woolf. very few people read her books even though she is one of the most famous writters in history, yet, dan brown writes something very easy to read and is more widely read. So who is more succesful? a better writter? well that is up to the reader and has many different view points.
MyBla123 1 year ago
please note my intention is not to compare chopan as to liszt as dan brown is to woolf in quality of art...
MyBla123 1 year ago
@MyBla123 Have the respect to spell out Beethoven.
XylussN 1 year ago
This is just...delightful. I love Liszt! <33
BLACKDOTSx 2 years ago
thanks you. very good. it is favourite short music of the liszt. gracias
TheBrandan6 2 years ago
That is just the most charming Piano piece I ever heard.
Like something out of the nutcracker.
Jim341046 2 years ago
i've found chopin's work to be overly complicated and method based.
osterianio 2 years ago
Liszt has less fans on FB than Chopin because Poland is bigger than Hungary. I don't know who is better but i prefer Chopin.
Trupozerca 2 years ago
Along with La Campanellla, this is the cutest of Lizst's very hard pieces. Both pieces have the deceptice but very hard double notes chromatic scales.
Jim341046 2 years ago
I'd love to see Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 done like this.
hiveimperious 2 years ago
It's on my DVD (go to my website) ...
smalin 2 years ago
this piece feux follets is one of the most beautiful stuff i've ever heard in my life i've always loved feux follets... also is an extremely difficult piece to play
mayorde18 2 years ago
verry hard to play !
verry beatiful !
pimfaceit 2 years ago
amazing! i am working on this song right now it is by far the hardest song i have played (if not one of the most technically difficult piano piece that exists!)
anicolel1 2 years ago
rofl the right hand is so fast and conjunct and then the left hand has awkward intervals every now and then.
Must've been hard to find someone who could play this
augustmaple 2 years ago 2
This is just an amazing piece of music you get to see why Liszt was deemed one of the greatest pianist in his time and one of the greatest pianist ever. His pieces are extremely teqnically advanced.
safibella 2 years ago 2
amazing what one piano can do huh?
alienhunter96 2 years ago 2
Is this on piano?
badmonkeyballplayer 2 years ago
no guitar
baseket2ball12 2 years ago 2
Lol
LoadOfCrabby 2 years ago
good job smalin!
raticida123456 2 years ago
I can't take credit for anything except the graphics (see the FAQ).
smalin 2 years ago
I love the part at around 0:50
balflear81 2 years ago
If I'm not mistaken,
I know this is considered as one of the most
difficult piano piece ever written for solo
piano repertoire!
:P
this is my Favorite!!!:P
salamence47 2 years ago 2
Esta animación logra mostrar visualmente los "Fuegos Fatuos" que Liszt logró plasmar en las notas. Genial!
LarryJCP 2 years ago
would be amazing a video with the alkan solo piano concerto by hamelin...
stagesix6 2 years ago
Hi smalin, I like most of the video's you upload. I've also downloaded the MAM, and now i'm looking for this song but I can't find the MIDI file you used, so please could you tell me where to find it?
w1z13 2 years ago
It's by Robert Finley, and I got it from Classical Archives (dot com).
smalin 2 years ago
Sorry for the late response, I downloaded this version too but it's not sustained like this video. Please can you explain me how to do that?, it sounds a lot better.
Thank you.
w1z13 2 years ago
Oh, sorry about that. It's probably that the MAMPlayer doesn't respond to the pedal controller. If you email me, I'll see if I can find a version of the MIDI file that has the pedal controller translated into note lengths (which is what I did for this video).
smalin 2 years ago
This looks insane!
nbharakey 2 years ago
haha.. go look at the score. i think that looks more insane
flashfire512 2 years ago
What Liszt could do with a piano no one has exceed after him.
SonofDostojevskij 2 years ago
Depends what you mean by "exceed." There are pieces that are harder (at least, in certain ways) than what Liszt wrote. That doesn't mean that they're better, of course.
smalin 2 years ago
so punk
luisxochitl 2 years ago
Hey, Smalin. Do some Alkan, I'd like to see his pieces visualized!
kastlesucks 2 years ago 2
Now, there's a composer I don't get many requests for.
What's your favorite Alkan piece for solo piano?
smalin 2 years ago
Yeah, le vent (op.15) would look the best
kastlesucks 2 years ago
please do one for circus galop, for those who are unfamiliar with it I'd STRONGLY recommend you look it up on youtube.
johnl5r3w 2 years ago 2
This is a rather hectic video, but it's super fun to watch. I can see why Brahms and many others considered Liszt to be the best piano player ever.
shiggityshake 2 years ago 4
Wow... It's easy to see why he was considered a virtuoso.
narcolepzzz 2 years ago 3
I would need like ten hands to play this one. beautiful and psihodelic :)
love it.
christalship 2 years ago 5
Funny how the Clair de Lune looks a lot more complicated, but this is a SHITLOAD more difficult.
werq34ac 2 years ago 3
Yup.... I tried both pieces (not mastered) and feux follets is 10 times harder imo
braintist 2 years ago
only 10 times? Seriously, Clair de Lune is just slow chordal passages and arpeggios. pianistically quite easy. musically it's more of a challenge, but those things don't show up on the midis.
Feux Follets on the other hand, is a piano nightmare. double note passages everywhere. One of the most difficult pieces of the transcendental etudes. This is one of the most difficult pieces written for piano. 10 times? more like 50 times.
werq34ac 2 years ago 5
Make that 100 lol
braintist 2 years ago
Liszt should be a Rave Party Dj. =D
brunozxch2o 2 years ago
LMAOOO. haha
iwasjustthere 2 years ago
liszt is amazing... do his Mephisto Waltz
sanandreasfreak44 2 years ago
This music is so crazy,mad and psychedelic...
dm1kristian 2 years ago
작곡가 피아졸라의 음악적 예술작품입니다
KIMAEREE 2 years ago
So happy and jumpy!
acrobatsutr 2 years ago 3
Unfortunately it's not suppose to be. Fuex Follets literally means Crazy (or merry) Fires and is the french way of saying swamp fires. It's suppose to be eerie. The left hand should actually have the melody in this peice. Even Cziffra didn't understand this piece so it's understandable that smalin didn't get it right. The true version of this song is hard to find even on the internet. In my favorites there is a low quality "correct" version.
djvbb12 2 years ago 4
Yes. I know, but that is my opinion on this music, mostly 0:28 is jumpy.
acrobatsutr 2 years ago 4
dude yr favs fukkn kick ass
-hero
fordieform 2 years ago
Someone should do Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
mistermoen 2 years ago
He (smalin) has. It's on a DVD you can get from his website, up there in the info box. You should check it out. >_>
HalcyonUmbra 2 years ago
bravo.
jpsousa4 2 years ago
i love the start
otterknex 2 years ago
This reminds me of tom and jerry.
unique0987654321 2 years ago 3
That's because they used a lot of classical music as background music for tom and jerry.
smalin 2 years ago
i wish this was my theme music lol
FraApplez 2 years ago 3
lol XD yea classical blue's type city music i think really catch right now my head bobbin to it.... XD
:50 to 1:04 cool xD
moneyjr1122 2 years ago
after you listen to this you go aaaahhhh...., as you should go after all good music
anacrusisztc 2 years ago
damn... 3:14 so many colors
kevin92764 2 years ago
that was a response to "LegitCritic" btw
paulusmaximusvii 2 years ago
Ferenc Liszt he a great hungarian musicer.
Dominik19961017 2 years ago
"Fuochi fatui" is my favorite piece, and probably also the most difficult Trascendental study... It' should be a little faster, but I prefer played this way.
Thank you smalin :-)
themorrison05 2 years ago
Liszt was always at competition with chopin to see who could make the harder piece, I think Chopin would have a hard time topping this one
Bass0nist 2 years ago
Yup, in the process Liszt went on to take the edge with respect to technical prowess, but it was Chopin who didn't allow pure virtuosity to damper the quality of his compositions, hence his recognition as a Classic Composer. This piece from Liszt sounds like a cartoon soundtrack to be quite frank.
LegitCritic 2 years ago 2
Since cartoons came later, I think we have to say that cartoon soundtracks sound like Liszt.
smalin 2 years ago
To be quite frank, that's just the kind of pompousness that draws most people away from classical music. You're point is basically that it sounds kinda fun and jaunty, and that detracts from it's value... that seems like a leap of logic if you ask me. I mean really, reconstruct that logic. hahaha.... I like this piece, I felt it needed to be defended.
paulusmaximusvii 2 years ago 4
Liszt's compostions are harder, but remember he lived twice as Chopin. Anyway, Franz and Chopin are geniuses, the former a virtuoso genius and the latter a melody genius. Who will history remember the most in 200 years? Melodies conquer hearts. Just in FB Chopin has 102,000 fans, whereas Liszt has 20,000 or so. Now this doesn't mean anything in particular, but it does say how Chopin's music pierces through the soul. If he had been told he'll have 105,000 followers in FB he'd have said "wth?"
robespierre80 2 years ago
Oh just because Chopin is more famous it doesn't mean that we won't remember Lizst, all the great composers had their special forte, and everyone of them composed very different pieces of music so therefore we can't forget any of them. And you can't just say that Chopin is better because he has 102,000 fans on FB that's just because most of his fans aren't on FB. Then Britney S is better that fore example Guns n' Roses and I think Guns n' Roses will be rembered more than Britney.
safibella 2 years ago
"Just in FB Chopin has 102,000 fans, whereas Liszt has 20,000....but it does say how Chopin's music pierces through the soul."
.....I can't believe you just said that. As if a composer's merit was ever based on his facebook fans..
All it means is that Chopin is more well known than Mr. Liszt. It's like saying Mozart is the best composer to ever have lived because he's the most famous.
While Mozart's being the best composer may be true in my case, it may not be the same for everyone else.
BLACKDOTSx 2 years ago 10
Haven't you heard? It's been decided that everything is going to be based on Facebook fan count. Starting in 2012, the U.S. will elect its president that way.
smalin 2 years ago 69
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Overall Chopin has more famous pieces but the world must understand this is more impressive than anything Chopin has done. Perhaps only a Pianist knows this..
Jim341046 2 years ago
I'm a pianist ... and I don't think this is more impressive than anything Chopin did (or more impressive than anything Liszt did, either, for that matter) ...
smalin 2 years ago 8
@smalin Listzt more about speed. Chopin is about emotion.
srrybunny 1 year ago
@Jim341046 I'm a pianist, too, and have played lots of Chopin and lots of Liszt. This piece is a landmark in the piano literature, but isn't "more impressive" than works of Chopin that are also astounding. On the whole, pianists generally regard Chopin as the greater of the two composers and the most consistently "great." Liszt wrote some true masterpieces (like the Sonata), but he wrote many that don't hold a candle to his contemporaries. Pianists have room for both.
3cplantin 1 year ago
Yes, I think it was a little hasty of me to say that. Chopin was an amazing innovator and I love playing his music especially the Nocturnes and Etude in E which I'm currently learning although I'm pretty sure I won't get through it - I'm not familiar with 'octave jumping' yet.
Chopin is a marvel to learn - you can't believe how sophisticated some of the chords are for the 1830s - more like 1950s.
The reason this piece is so staggering to me is that are at times 3 independent melodies....
Jim341046 1 year ago
Define "impressive". This is probably more technically challenging than anything Chopin ever wrote, but it's not better. It's a great piece, but it's just a short little etude. You really can't compare it with Chopin's masterpieces like his sonatas, ballades, concertos, etc. and say this is more impressive.
llamasownyou 1 year ago
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3cplantin 1 year ago
@Jim341046....I dont know if u played any of Chopin's etudes but Chopin wrote some very impressive repertoire for piano. This piece was written for the sole purpose of challenging pianists and to show off his technical abilities. Feux Follets is not that beautiful in its melody while all chopin etudes are both challenging and extremely beautiful.
But we're both being biased...comparing liszt to chopin is comparing apples to oranges
danman745 1 year ago
@danman745 I can play the first half of Chopin's etude in Eb but then it gets too hard for me - like the double octaves etc. It is beautiful. But I love the sound of this piece but partly because I know how hard it must be doing the right hand. It is out of my league.
Jim341046 1 year ago
@Jim341046 As a pianist personally I like henselt better then any other major pianist , But, this piece is for interesting
whythewar1 1 year ago
@Jim341046
"The world must understand." Is that an imperative, an edict; or is it a supposition (as in "he must know he's about to fall off that cliff"?
I like this piece.
misanthrope8 1 year ago
@Jim341046 what the heck do you mean? that's just weird :V
Lity10 1 year ago
LOL!
In that case, according to the top fan-pages on facebook, it's a race between Vin Diesel, Lady Gaga, and Michael Jackson's corpse! Hahaha.
BLACKDOTSx 2 years ago 40
@BLACKDOTSx go gaga! lol
senhorkorracha 1 year ago
@BLACKDOTSx In that case, we will undoubtedly have a dead corpse for president, literally! LOL!!
TheSapphirestation 6 months ago
hehehe... good one
kyuzo1313 2 years ago
@smalin
i don't know whats more scary, that it would work or that most people would like that...
Zwangsworkaholic 1 year ago
@smalin lmao PERFECT response
chutdigadut 1 year ago
LOL
lukelee1495 1 year ago
@smalin
oh my god. i hope it doesn't really come to that.
cassandra5322 1 year ago
@smalin This is one of those moments when I really feel like being British.
wiseman2131 1 year ago
@wiseman2131 British? Why British?
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin They seem so sophisticated...at least, more than most Americans I've seen. I've lived in Kentucky for all my life, and so far, I'm the only person with common decency. It's rather depressing, when you think about it.
wiseman2131 1 year ago
@wiseman2131 Maybe you should move.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin I would if I wasn't fifteen years of age and without a job.
wiseman2131 1 year ago
@wiseman2131 I can see where you're coming from man, but there are decent people out there. Don't justify the means with the ends. There are bad people out there, there are people that have no self-respect towards themselves or those around them; but they are the people who you see yourself as not, and you'll never be them. Just be glad that you have that cognitive performance and realize that there people just like them in Britain or anywhere else in this world.
Graveangel123 1 year ago
@BLACKDOTSx
Chopin has more fans. It really means something although you dont want to hear it.
He is more famous, what does it mean? Why he is more famous than Liszt? There is a reason. The reason is that his music can capture much wider audience. That´s it.
J0EH3AD 1 year ago
underviewed I should say...
wonder how long it took to create this
treasurehunter629 3 years ago
O_O
Sehnsucht191 3 years ago
the only thing I can say of this song right now is Wooooow
MichirulovesHaruka 3 years ago
i love this!
livelylark 3 years ago
3:09-3:20
What the fuuuuuuuck
someoldcliche 3 years ago
> 3:09-3:20 What the fuuuuuuuck
That's what it looks like when the (sustain) pedal is down.
smalin 3 years ago
hahaha
goobleglob 2 years ago
insane! its like the person who played it had 60 fingers! it made my brain hurt to look at the lines alone...
Beautiful song
shaundrakim 3 years ago 2
Song? Where? Is the singer obscured by the piano? Oh... wait....
goobleglob 3 years ago 2
hahahah
drurylane5 3 years ago
It looks pretty
MECHAPIXEL 3 years ago
i know half this song
danny15L 3 years ago
i half-know this song
smalin 3 years ago
it doesnt matter
derprstr 3 years ago
This is an even more difficult piece of piano playing, even much more than the previous Chopin Etude.
Liszt Transcendental Studies.
Wonderful!
visualpiano 3 years ago 3
exquisite song!!! and made me crazy looking at the lines :)
skunkiee 3 years ago
very good
seijurouhiko 3 years ago
nice! really good performance and interesting visual aid.
never heard this liszt piece before, thanks for uploading!
Iaxobus 3 years ago
how the heck did you play thiss??
u must be some sort of famous pianist
seperom 3 years ago
HAHAHAHAHA. You're funny. The tempo is suppose to be about 1.5 times as fast.
djvbb12 3 years ago
haha i almost want to accuse you af being drunk... but it seems possible
h3115r3p3ntanc3 3 years ago
nope.. djvbb12 is true.. it is best to be played around 1.5 faster.. see berezovsky.
rvn10rvn17 3 years ago
i wanna watch this on mushrooms.
guitarded10 3 year